Bono, Joe Cocker and the lovely Evan Rachel Wood put their own spins on classic Beatles songs in Across the Universe and its soundtrack, due September 18 via Interscope. The film, as many already know, opens four days earlier, September 14, in select theaters.
Beginning with over 200 songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, as well as George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the filmmakers eventually chose 30 songs that they felt best told the story of a generation. A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s, turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n' roll, Across The Universe is centered on characters heard in those songs, with the lyrics often part of the dialogue. Utilizing live action plus animation and digital effects, Across The Universe moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to Greenwich Village, the riot-torn streets of Detroit to Vietnam.
Evan Rachel Wood performs Blackbird, Because, Dear Prudence, Hold Me Tight and If I Fell songs in the film.
God's message

Anyway, back to my story... There was this cat at the cafe and the grubby creature kept rubbing itself against my leg! It must have been freaking happy when I accidentally dropped a butter prawn onto the floor. For a stray cat, that was one very fat cat...

Peace?

Wonder how much peace will there be today...
The irony...is remarkable...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEMIE!
Merdeka

Very pro?

I'm ranting today. Not based on the concept of,"I DON'T CARE" but because I have the right to voice out my opinions as long I do not include any profanities in this post about what I am ranting about. Fine, today is the Merdeka celebration thing my school threw. So I was there backstage, supervising the prefects and helping out with whatever I can. Now's the time for my PA SYSTEM ORDEAL...
We prefects were always told not to touch the pa system. Today, I was told to plug the microphones for choir in. Fine, I plugged them in without even asking anyone where to plug it in the two jacks. Did as I was told. The choir teacher adjusted the volume control of the microphones. But I noticed something... all three microphone volumes up and the two microphones I just plugged in, have no on/off switch. Since, there was no teacher there and the rule of 'do not touch'... you get the point. So, when the principal was almost through her speech, there was a minute static noise and screech. Rather unusual actually, considering the fact why would it only screech now after such a long period of time. Then, Teacher A and Teacher B comes...
Teacher A screeches at me: Don't stand near the PA!!! (implying that standing near the PA causes static/screeching)
Teacher A continues on screeching: Why the microphones facing the PA!!! (implying microphones facing the PA causes static/screeching)
Teacher A violently turns the microphone stands away from the PA (microphone screeches on)
Teacher A shrieks: WHY YOU PLUG IN THE MICROPHONES WHEN YOU'RE NOT USING IT YET??? (isn't a PA system meant to have everything set up before in preparation for a function? Duh!)
Teacher A violently yanks the jacks out of the PA system. Static/screeching continues on. Teacher B comes into the scene...
Teacher B yells: Look at the light! (points up at flickering flourescent lamp) Flickering! That's why the microphone sound also like that! You see! When the light flicker, the microphone sound also!
I was bemused by all the theories put forth and angry at them for blaming without any logical reasons. So, fine I moved to the back and let the teachers deal with the PA system on their own, ignored them. Then, time for choir. I hung back and did not bother with the PA. Why should I? It's apparent that the teachers think they can do better than me. So let them be then. However, I had to just adjust the volume controls for the choir teacher's sake. Then, I told Teacher A, it's best if she just takes over handling the PA. What happened? Lots of static and screeches begins once she twiddles with the controls. So, what's the problem now?? Ahh... I am not going to state. I AM NO PRO REMEMBER? (For crying out loud, I could handle a PA system as if it was my PC!) Oh yeah, what I did was, I hung back and smiled in my own self amusement.
If prefects are going to keep getting blamed if something goes wrong with the PA system, then I believe, a teacher should handle the PA system herself/himself for any function which requires the usage of the PA system. Why? Simply because of "do not touch" rule and if there's a PA system pro among the teachers, then let them do it. Unless, you properly train the prefect and let her handle the PA system without the "do not touch" rule then. Or if you want to carry on like how it is now, then have that PA pro teacher watch over the prefect throughout the event. Why? Because every houseman requires a MO. So there.
Retarded colours?

If there are "normal" colours... then there would be "abnormal" colours?
Something abnormal about a colour means...???
Ambang Merdeka is tomorrow. The school made it compulsory for all of us to wear traditional Malaysian outfits. I couldn't make up my mind to wear what in the first place. Baju kurung? Traditional Thailand woven silk (which could easily pass off as Malay kain songket actually)? Baju kebaya? Baju kebarung? Why am I so Malay cultured? Exactly. I just had to de-Malay my outfit by spoiling it with a medieval Chinese bronze bangle which had a dragon carved on. I couldn't make up my mind at first what colour Malay piece to wear. Pink? Blue? Brown? Purple? Metallic? Green? Gold? Peach? What a selection!
Quote the bugger: "Typical of your species. Sometimes the sky already fall down, still cannot decide on what to wear..."
So, I settled down with a pinkish-violet baju kurung which had a printed floral pattern. I finally made my first decision after such looooong moments of hard deciding.
Quote the bugger: "Ewww...vomits...coughs blood...pink...coughs a whole pool of blood...vomits lunch and blood...pukes breakfast and blood...pukes last nights dinner...pukes gastric juices...vomits...ugh. Pink. Imagines a rotting carcass."
There goes my decision. Influenced. Next up, I settled for a lilac-purple batik baju kebarung. Purple is a fine colour. Isn't that Sam's obsession?
Quote the bugger: "Urgh...Regurgitates yesterdays lunch. Vomits intestines."
*Raises eyebrow quizzically at biologically impossible quotes* So, I finally settled with a very pale blue batik baju kebarung. Guess what the bugger said.
Quote the bugger: "Finally a normal colour!"
Malay-ed this Thursday



Anyway, this Thursday, my school is celebrating National Day and it is compulsory for all of us to wear our traditional clothes. Yes, I am Chinese (proud to be one) but there is no way I am going to show up in a cheongsam and still doing rounds within school grounds or church grounds or St. Joseph Secondary area or museum grounds. Baju kurung it is, a set of pink baju kurung and mind you, not lurid pink, a shade of pink that does not burn out anybody's corneas.
We helped Pn. Shirley carry some books to display at the Reading Bay, one of the books was a FEMALE MAGAZINE DATED BACK TO 1992! That's so outdated fashion...
Dusty, dusty, dusty!

The books there are just so dusty that you can practically see a thick carpet of dust on the books! Nisha, Rhe and I were told by Puan Shirley to tidy up the reading bay. My hands were grey after that, blame the dust. Its so dusty! Dead books, like a burial ground for books. We found a Samsung poster there, wanted to stick it up but Puan Shirley said, "irrelevant!"
I discovered this today from a walking, talking encyclopedia!
ADMIRAL CHENG HO DISCOVERED AMERICA IN 1421
THE WORD WINDOWS IS A VIKING WORD
This blogger ponders: "Why is a name called a name?"
Eggs & Monks

1. Boil an egg
2. Make a hole, one on top and one at the bottom. For the bottom of the egg (larger base), make a bigger hole compared to the top.
3. Cover the top hole with both hands and with another hand around the egg, blow really hard. (Yup, you need three hands for this method)
4. Tadaaa! The egg is out.
Then, I was telling another person about this new method. Oh yeah, apparently that method had something to do with Bernoulli's Principle (???) according to the beancurd. But if I blow from the top, there would be a region of low pressure...hence, the egg will rise I thought. Bernoulli's Principle when applied to eggs, makes me think of flying aerodynamic eggs. Anyway back to the story of this other person... here are the methods this extra person stated...
1. Use hydrochloric acid to remove the eggshell.
2HCl (aq) + CaCO3 (s) ------> CaCl2 (aq) + CO2 (g) + H20 (l)
2. Roll the egg in between a piece of cloth.
I think the outcome of that, the egg will look like this...

I'm leaaaaaving on a jet plane~

Went for breakfast or rather, brunch. It was originally supposed to be breakfast at Le Yue Cafe at Crown Plaza, unfortunately we had to wait for my sister to get out of the toilet, which took a remarkable one hour plus, hence it became brunch. They had a sign in the toilet which, read:
"If flushing nonstop, push flush."
Evan rachel Wood - King of California Trailer No. 1
Here is the trailer for 'King of California' starring Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Douglas.
A teenage girl, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), has her life thrown into turmoil when her mentally ill dad (Michael Douglas) is releases from an institution and comes to live with her. Obsessed with buried treasure in California's San Fernando Valley, the crazy old coot comes up with an outrageous plan to dig it up from underneath a Costco store.
Release Date: September 14, 2007

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A teenage girl, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), has her life thrown into turmoil when her mentally ill dad (Michael Douglas) is releases from an institution and comes to live with her. Obsessed with buried treasure in California's San Fernando Valley, the crazy old coot comes up with an outrageous plan to dig it up from underneath a Costco store.
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Very, very, very angry blogger

Blasted heck!!! *lets out string of profanities and chucks mouse at wall* So much for doing good, you get good!!! *curses!* Fine, I normally put away on my MSN eventhough I am not away, well most of the time. Yeah, I like to do my work without any disturbances from my MSN contacts. Uh huh. *Curses some more* So, okay, this junior greets me and sends me a file. A WINWAR FILE, MIND YOU. It had a jpeg format. Whatever. It didn't look like those crappy viruses disguised as bloody shitty photo albums.
I mean, what the hell. I only let my guard down for two seconds by being nice and replying by clicking accept. Look what happened!!! What was that?? A Trojan?? I don't know! Blasted heck, all I can tell you is the moment the thing finished downloaded, this virus ATTACKED MY COMPUTER!!! *curses angrily* My computer went haywired. Yeah, turned itself on shut itself on turn itself on and shut itself on again! *PROFANITIES!!!*
I recalled performing system restore the previous time my computer went nuts and the volume controls all disappeared completely. Fine, I attempted that. However, THE BLASTED COMPUTER KEPT SHUTTING OFF. Yeah, yeah. Finally, I did it fast enough to click some random date and click restore. BLASTED HECK! Don't forget the torture of my pc lagging and lagging like some kaput creature. Like WHAT THE HELL??!!
PISSED. *curses one final time and multiclicks on publish post angrily*
I mean, what the hell. I only let my guard down for two seconds by being nice and replying by clicking accept. Look what happened!!! What was that?? A Trojan?? I don't know! Blasted heck, all I can tell you is the moment the thing finished downloaded, this virus ATTACKED MY COMPUTER!!! *curses angrily* My computer went haywired. Yeah, turned itself on shut itself on turn itself on and shut itself on again! *PROFANITIES!!!*
I recalled performing system restore the previous time my computer went nuts and the volume controls all disappeared completely. Fine, I attempted that. However, THE BLASTED COMPUTER KEPT SHUTTING OFF. Yeah, yeah. Finally, I did it fast enough to click some random date and click restore. BLASTED HECK! Don't forget the torture of my pc lagging and lagging like some kaput creature. Like WHAT THE HELL??!!
PISSED. *curses one final time and multiclicks on publish post angrily*
Life as a piano teacher...

I had my very first piano student yesterday. Yup, I had my very first experience as a piano teacher with a 'utterly unknowledgable in piano' student, namely Aaron Chan, who suddenly sprouted an interest to go from guitar to piano just because he heard a couple of nice instrumental piano solos.




Finally you grew a brain!

Okay, I did my project. Here comes the tough part, the graphs. I'm no Excel expert, I was too lazy to venture. I mean, where are all those Excel brainiacs when I need them??? Cooped up in Thailand or Melaka, great timing. The only Excel brainiac or whom I thought was one, was Stefan. Okay, fine. Not much help. I drew my graph using freeform tool. Showed to Stefan for his opinion, he said it looked too stiff and suggested I used pencil first then scan it. So it looks 'computerized'. Okay, I did that. Uh... doesn't look very 'computerized' to me.
Then, I decided to venture with Excel. Succeeded in drawing graphs even ogives with Excel. Guess what the brainiac in Melaka said...
"Finally you grew a brain!"
That's just so sweet... And karma bit me in the head again this time with razor sharp fangs.

Kaput?

Bad, bad karma for these two weeks. You see ah, last Friday, I discovered we cannot sleepover in school to prepare for camp next day. Kaput! I had to wake up around four something in the morning. Then karma strikes again, I ran into non other than some two horrible critters, (donkey and his fellow haystack) after picking up lunch for a couple of fellow Red Crescent Members. See, see, see? I did good by picking up lunch for poor hungry people and karma bit me in the head with fangs and tetanus.
Yesterday karma also very kaput. I did good by accompanying a kaput human stuck in the wilderness of Malaysia by means of Digi 016's yellow fat men and what I get in return? Kaput whining for few hours straight. Karma. Bad, bad karma again. Speaking Digi's yellow fat men. What kind of mascot is that??? Yellow fat men already symbolizes unhealthiness, what more to say these kaput yellow fat men can chase after us to provide us network. Weird. Then, I notice Digi throwing on "fitness campaign" to slim down their yellow fat men. Yup, boot camp. Check out the ads on television. Soon, there will be muscular yellow men running after us to provide network. Ironic. Must be karma on Digi.
Across the Universe screening benefits BC/EFA
On Monday evening Labor Day, September 3, 2007 an exclusive screening of the upcoming film 'Across the Universe' (starring our girl, Evan Rachel Wood) will take place at The Sony Building Screening Room followed by a rare conversation with the film’s director Julie Taymor. Proceeds from this event will go to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.
Tickets are: $100.00 for the screening, Talk Back with Julie Taymor and Cocktail Reception, and $250.00 for the Film, Talk Back with Julie Taymor, Cocktail Reception and personalized signed book Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire (new, updated 3rd edition published by Abrams) at the event.
To buy tickets, call 212 840-0770 ext. 268 or visit www.broadwaycares.org for additional information.
Tickets are: $100.00 for the screening, Talk Back with Julie Taymor and Cocktail Reception, and $250.00 for the Film, Talk Back with Julie Taymor, Cocktail Reception and personalized signed book Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire (new, updated 3rd edition published by Abrams) at the event.
To buy tickets, call 212 840-0770 ext. 268 or visit www.broadwaycares.org for additional information.
Evan Rachel Wood New York Magazine cover
Evan Rachel Wood graces the cover of the Fall Fashion 2007, August 27, issue of New York Magazine.

Cover Girl: Evan Rachel Wood
Beneath Evan Rachel Woods all-American, uncomplicated beauty lives a semi-suppressed style rebel. “It sometimes throws people off,” says the 19-year-old. “I keep the simple blonde look because of my job, but if I werent acting, Id have short black hair like Natalie Portman in The Professional.”
Wood first became known as every parents nightmare, the good teen headed for bad in Thirteen, and her next role is another transformation from sweet to radicalized: Shes the star of Across the Universe (opening in New York on September 14), Julie Taymors Beatles-based movie musical set in the sixties. As Lucy, Wood goes from high-school prom queen to Greenwich Village hippie, and hits all the eras fashions—an experience that prompted Wood to seek out her own vintage looks. “I ended up buying a couple of sixties prom dresses and some white heels to go with them,” she says. “I’ll bust them out every now and then. It gets so boring to be confined to one thing.”
Like most teenagers, she’s blown by the whims of the moment. “The other day, I watched the old Bela Lugosi Dracula movie, and I became obsessed. I went out and completely did the twenties smoky eyes, deep lips, and crazy hair,” she says. A crazy-haired Dracula woman sounds like something Woods boyfriend, 38-year-old goth rocker Marilyn Manson, would like, but she says his distinctive style hasnt directly influenced her wardrobe choices—except that she finds his lack of inhibition liberating. “When youre with someone like him, it gives you permission to take it up a notch,” she says. “I feel I can play around a little more. For so long, Id want to dress a certain way but wouldnt, ’cause Id be so worried about what people would think. Now I know thats such a waste of time. You only live once; youve got to go for it.”
Evan Rachel Wood, behind the scenes at the Fall Fashion issue cover shoot with Harriet Mays Powell.
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Cover Girl: Evan Rachel Wood
Beneath Evan Rachel Woods all-American, uncomplicated beauty lives a semi-suppressed style rebel. “It sometimes throws people off,” says the 19-year-old. “I keep the simple blonde look because of my job, but if I werent acting, Id have short black hair like Natalie Portman in The Professional.”
Wood first became known as every parents nightmare, the good teen headed for bad in Thirteen, and her next role is another transformation from sweet to radicalized: Shes the star of Across the Universe (opening in New York on September 14), Julie Taymors Beatles-based movie musical set in the sixties. As Lucy, Wood goes from high-school prom queen to Greenwich Village hippie, and hits all the eras fashions—an experience that prompted Wood to seek out her own vintage looks. “I ended up buying a couple of sixties prom dresses and some white heels to go with them,” she says. “I’ll bust them out every now and then. It gets so boring to be confined to one thing.”
Like most teenagers, she’s blown by the whims of the moment. “The other day, I watched the old Bela Lugosi Dracula movie, and I became obsessed. I went out and completely did the twenties smoky eyes, deep lips, and crazy hair,” she says. A crazy-haired Dracula woman sounds like something Woods boyfriend, 38-year-old goth rocker Marilyn Manson, would like, but she says his distinctive style hasnt directly influenced her wardrobe choices—except that she finds his lack of inhibition liberating. “When youre with someone like him, it gives you permission to take it up a notch,” she says. “I feel I can play around a little more. For so long, Id want to dress a certain way but wouldnt, ’cause Id be so worried about what people would think. Now I know thats such a waste of time. You only live once; youve got to go for it.”
Evan Rachel Wood, behind the scenes at the Fall Fashion issue cover shoot with Harriet Mays Powell.
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Evan Rachel Wood Nylon Mag scans..
Here are some scans of Evan Rachel Wood and her interview in Nylon Magazine's September 2007 issue...




Evan rachel Wood graces cover Nylon Magazine 2007
Evan Rachel Wood graces the cover of Nylon Magazine for the September 2007 issue...
Vain?

poster= Jonas + vain


For anyone who is blur... click this link. http://jonasblogged.blogspot.com/2007/08/kat.html
Bad luck

I went with Melanie to grab food at Sugarbun for the camp committees. It was the nearest outlet to our school. I got a text message from the donkey telling me that he's going to Sugarbun. *inserts profanities* I cursed mentally and stalled time so that we would leave school later so that we would only reach Sugarbun after the swamp creature evaporated into thin air.
We ordered food. Yup, glorious food and waited. Melanie sat facing the counter while I sat opposite her, facing the main road. Suddenly, I THOUGHT I SAW IT. I stared for a moment, and confirmed my worst horrors that it indeed was the swamp creature crossing the road from Hopoh with a minature swamp creature, whoever that was. THEY CAME, NEARER AND NEARER. All I wanted to do was make a dash back to school. Fortunately, the food came. I grabbed it and attempted sprinted for life. Melanie didn't know I wanted to sprint for life, she took her sweet time.
Bad timing... as we approached the exit of Sugarbun, the swamp creature was only two to three feet away. Groans. Then, two packets of food went missing in school. Stolen? Mystery... I thought maybe we left it there in Sugarbun (confirmed we did not). Rang up the swamp creature. He claims I was shrieking. Kaput swamp creature. You know what I would want to do to that swamp creature? Strangle him alive.
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RCYU#8 Leadership Camp
It's over...*sniff*...Red Crescent Youth Unit #8 Leadership Camp 2007... Just got back from camp. It was a three day camp from the 18th of August to the 20th of August 2007. I was one of the camp committees and since the participants were not allowed their mobiles during the camp, I had to carry all 24 phones in my bag!!! Picture all that weight, carrying that amount around with you on your shoulders for 3 days!!! I'm too lazy to describe in words everything that happened during camp. I'll let the pictures do the talking although that's probably only 1% of what that happened in camp anyway. There were talks, games, post mortem, SAR, footdrill and etc, etc, long long list. Too lazy to blog it all down.
Blue Team (True Blue). Leader: Estella, Assistant Leader: Marcellia
Green Team (Green Pirates). Leader: Monica, Assistant Leader: Ani

SAR (Search and Rescue) was fuuuuun. I always loved SAR. I was the ambulance in the scene, by that I mean, the person who brings the stretcher, first aid kit and blanket. While waiting for the participants to make a phone call to ask for an ambulance, I acted as a passerby. My job was to bug them. So, I went around the place singing Old MacDonald and yet I don't know the lyrics so all I sang was probably, "Old MacDonald had a farm. Eeyaheeyahyor!!!" over and over for prob more than a million times. I rapped as well and haha, I don't even know how to rap, I just rapped crap. I probably disgraced those hiphop people. Rofl. Then, I went around yelling "wood chuck chuck!!! How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood!!!" in the first aiders' ears. I went around poking casualties as well, asking stupid questions, and telling them stupid wrong methods to treat the casualties. Rofl. In short, I was a really annoying and loud passerby. That explains how my voice cracked the next day from all that shouting and only one hour of sleep. (SAR ended at 6.00am and I woke up at 7.00am)
Closing ceremony after the prize giving.
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